The New York Times skims sour milk off the surface of the World Social Forum, focusing on Brazil leadership issues rather than catching the renewed significance of the world’s largest anti-neoliberalism event at a time when the neoliberal economic model itself is in extreme crisis.
“When groups critical of globalization decided three years ago to organize a World Social Forum as an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this seemed a logical place to gather. Brazil’s Workers Party, one of the main sponsors of the event, was in power here and considered the state of Rio Grande do Sul an ideal showcase for its brand of ”post-Marxist” democracy and social revolution.”
via Antiglobalization Forum to Return to a Changed Brazil – New York Times.